Posted on 02/19/2022 5:01:29 PM PST by simpson96
A Dutch teenager completely forgot his native tongue after waking up from surgery and could only speak English, doctors have revealed.
The unidentified 17-year-old boy, thought to be from Maastricht, was in hospital for a knee operation following an injury during a football match.
But after he awoke from the anesthesia, he was unable to speak or understand any of the medics, who were speaking in Dutch.
Instead, he was only able to talk in English — a language he had only been learning at school and never used outside of the classroom.
The boy also failed to recognise his own parents and believed that he was in the US, specifically in Utah, a country he had never visited.
After 24 hours, the teenager 'spontaneously' recovered both his ability to speak and understand his native language after friends came to visit him.
And doctors who treated him, at the Maastricht University Medical Center, claim he has retained his native tongue since.
Detailing his case in a medical journal, scientists believe he developed an extremely rare case of foreign language syndrome.(snip)
With just eight cases recorded worldwide in scientific literature there are scant details about foreign language syndrome.
How common is it?
Extraordinarily rare, there have been only eight post-operative cases recorded in scientific literature since 1999.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Either this is a cuckoo bird story or it is evidence that there is a lot about reality we don’t understand...
Let’s hear it for US TV and how it influences just about every country out there. Much of European TV is English (US English) language TV shows with subtitles in the host countries language.
I suspect that there is an interesting story of what when through his mind while he was out.
Re-incarnation.
I have had damage anesthesia which has persisted for going on three years now. Much of my memories have been jumbled up. Some things I knew seem gone forever, while other things I have remembered from decades ago.
Next he’ll be wearing Mormon underwear and calling himself Elder.
Could be a case of programming. . .anything these days is possible.
Honest question.
If these things that you once knew seem gone forever, how do you know you once knew them?
Reincarnation is mathematically impossible.
I wonder if I don’t have memory loss from some surgeries. My memory was pretty good before having them.
And if PghBaldy is anything like me, their spouse (in my case my wife) reminds me of what memories I’ve forgotten!
Ha! Yeah, I remember my days as a young Soldier. I’d wake up Saturday or Sunday morning, or both, and open an eye and it wonder where in hell I was. Then it would come to me,..OH yeah, what’s her name. Then the platoon would fill me in on what I did Monday at PT.
The large majority of Dutch speak English quite well. And the Dutch have a thing for the American west.
Did he dream about the angel Moroni telling him where to find the magic stones?
Just had one last month with my brother in law who has been in a nursing home over two years.
He had a stroke and had not spoken in over a year. His wife and son came to visit and he started talking, but it was all in German. He never spoke German In his life.
Years ago I did ultra depth hypnosis. Many times in deep trance they would speak foreign languages they did not know.
Often it was attached spirits.
He sounds like a very clever boy.
Wait. This is shocking. Dutch males play football?
Maybe they slipped in one of those Elon Musk mind control chips.
Things like which people I knew are dead? Obviously I know when people close to me die. Then, I could not remember some things that happened before my two surgeries of several hours.
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